Welcome to the Department of Pathology

The University of Virginia Department of Pathology is a center of
innovation for clinical service, research, and education.

The Department of Pathology is divided
into three Sections: Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology and
Experimental Pathology.

The Section of Anatomic Pathology provides tissue
and cytologic diagnostic services as well as autopsy service. In
addition to general Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology services,
specialty diagnostic subservices include neuropathology,
hematopathology, dermatopathology, renal pathology, ocular pathology
and muscle pathology. Specific faculty have subspecialty training in
and/or have developed internationally-acknowledged expertise in
gastrointestinal, head and neck, gynecologic/breast, pulmonary,
pediatric, genitourinary and bone/soft tissue pathology.
Histopathologic diagnosis is supported by a full range of molecular
techniques, including immunohistochemistry, chromogenic in situ
hybridization and fluorescence in situ hybridization. The AP services
accession over 30,000 cases per year, and perform approximately 220
autopsies per year.

The Section of Clinical Pathology (Laboratory
Medicine) provides medical directorship and diagnostic
services in the broad array of laboratory-based diagnostics in the UVA
Medical Laboratories, as well as in the Blood Bank and Stem Cell
Processing Laboratories. In addition to oversight of day-to-day
diagnostic operations and consultations with clinicians, Pathology
faculty are critical in the maintenance of laboratory certification,
control of laboratory test utilization, development and deployment of
new assays, control of laboratory utilization, and operation of
point-of-care testing. Specific named laboratories and services in
their purview include: clinical chemistry, allergy/immunology,
toxicology/therapeutic drug monitoring, endocrinology, coagulation,
biochemical genetics, cytogenetics, clinical genomics, molecular
diagnostics, hematopathology, flow cytometry, bacteriology, virology,
mycology, transfusion medicine, stem cell and point-of-care testing.
Pathology faculty also oversee laboratory informatics, an extremely
complex but critical flow of diagnostic information from an armada of
instrumentation and diagnosticians into the electronic medical record
in an efficient and error-free manner.

The Section of Experimental Pathology consists of
basic researchers and clinician scientists that lead investigation in a
broad range of fields and disciplines, and support a PhD training
program in Experimental Pathology through the Molecular and
Cellular Basis of Disease Training Program. For a description of
research interests of individual laboratories, please click here.